Kira waited.
Silas leaned closer. "While your mother's people may have rescinded their claim on you, your father's did not."
Kira blinked rapidly at them, her gaze shifting to Jin. How had they not considered this possibility?
"Uh," Jin said dumbly. "That was not in your code of laws."
Silas's smile was small and humorless. "There are many codices. This is an old law, one rarely invoked since few are born with equal claims on multiple Houses."
"What does that mean?" Kira asked.
Graydon’s smirk said checkmate. "It means you're not going anywhere. You're ours, and we mean to keep you."